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Quotes from By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)

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Mary Wickes
Stella: [about Bill returning home] Well, we'll be having a man around the house again!
[Mr. Sherman gives Stella a dirty look]
Stella: A young man.

Mary Wickes
Stella: [to the camera] Wesley is their second child. If he had been the first, there never would have been a second! Oh... You're probably wondering who I am. Well, don't be so nosy!

Gordon MacRae
Marjorie Winfield, Bill Sherman: [sings] By the light of the silvery moon, I want to spoon! / To my honey, I'll croon love's tune / Honey moon, keep a shining in June! / Your silvery beams will bring love's dreams / We'll be cuddling soon, by the silvery moon!

Gordon MacRae
Marjorie Winfield, Bill Sherman: [sings] Your eyes have told me so.

Doris Day
Marjorie Winfield: [sings] 'Round the barnyard goes the mighty cavalcade / Gorgeously arrayed. See them on parade!
- Doris Day (as Marjorie Winfield) in By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)

Gordon MacRae
Marjorie Winfield: Bill, it's so difficult for me to ask you to understand, but... Why I can't possibly think of marrying you right now. And I can't tell you why.
Bill Sherman: What do you mean you can't tell me? Why, I'm almost your husband! At least, I thought I was.
Marjorie Winfield: You will be. Someday. But for now Bill, couldn't you please be sweet and understanding?
Bill Sherman: But I don't want to be sweet and understanding! I want to be a husband!
Marjorie Winfield: Bill...
Bill Sherman: It never entered my mind, Marjorie, that you ever had any doubt about your feelings towards me. But now everything's quite obvious. You're not even sure I'm the man you want to marry!

Doris Day
Marjorie Winfield: Stella, we know that Father is still in love with Mother. This is just the thing to rekindle the flame.
- Doris Day (as Marjorie Winfield) in By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)

Gordon MacRae
Bill Sherman: [sings] Just one girl, only just one girl.

Gordon MacRae
Bill Sherman: Marjorie, do you realize what this means? Instead of waiting, why we can be married right away.